Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-19
OCTOBER 10, 1887
opeusurs for Enterprise.

Last week the Santa Ana papers put
forth well-grounded claims for an ex'
mansion of certain industries in and
about that thriving town. Foremost
among the things needed was can
nery to take care of the fruits which
ripen, and under existing circumstan-
ces 90 to waste in the orchards therea-
bouts. And Santa Ana is not singular
in this respect. We chance to know
from personal observation that at Ana
helm the ga ne deplorable state oi
affairs is noticeable. The same may
be said of Downey City and Los Me
tos. In fact, there are few places in
the county where there is
not a crying demand fol-
some enterprising person or firm to &c
in and establish better facilities for
handling the fruit crops, large por'
tion of which now goes to waste.
In the places named above, during
the entire summer past, and up to
the present moment, there have been
countless tons OF fruit falling from the
trees and rotting for the simple reason
that there was no one to take the mat
ter up and attend to getting it to mar
ket. While peaches of the finest
varieties, and some of them measur-
ing a foot around, were rotting be-
meath the trees in orchards within two
hours of Los Angeles, our fruit mer-
chants were getting five cars some days
from Vacaville for the local market.
A fruit grower at Glendale, just out
side the city limits, had good deal
offruit which he tried to sell to local
dealers. They would not make him
an offer for it. He loaded wagon
one day, and set out to peddle it in
the streets-with the result that before
he got to the Ddwney avenue bridge
he had sold every pound OF it at two
cents per pound.
While so much OF our fruit has been
lost for lack of some way to get 1t to
IN arket, the growers in the central
counties of the State have been selling
all their good fruits to those who ship
to Eastern markets. What was not
1Sent across the continent was sold to
the Gamers, and during the month OF
September a great deal of these
canned goods were sent to the East
from Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose
and other up-country cities.
1t is a well-known fact that the
markets of the East are excellent for
all sorts of good fruit, whether shipped
in o natural state, canned or dried.
Not one ton of our fruit should have
been wasted this season. 1t should
all have been disposed of at good
prices.
The trouble all lies in the fact that
we are all turned real estate dealers,
and none of us will pay attention to
anything else. But this is all wrong,
although perhaps quite natural. 1t is
our fruit crops, of all other circum-
stances, outside OF our climate, which
have given value to our lands. Outside
of climatic considerations, it is upon
our fruit crops that we must rely for
the future to uphold the values at
which realty is held. We have
found out what our soil is
worth for such purposes, and We
propose to hold it at prices quite justi-
fable because of the revenue it will
weld when devoted to fruit culture un-
der intelligent care.
What we would point out is this:
There are openings for capital in other
avenues OF investment besides that OF
speculating in lands. For men with
moderate amount of money and some
wears of life still before them, no bet
ter business opening exists in the
Onion than that OF handling
the fruit products OF some Of
these fiourishing interior towns.
It may not yield so large re-
turns as speculation in a short time
but it will be permanent. A man go
ING into it will have money-maklng
for all time to come. Nor
will these openings remain long unoc-
cupied. They will attract attention,
and some shrewd people will take
hem up. Every town in the valley
.ho,,ld have its frnithouse to handle
md ship to market all our fruits IN all
heir varied forms. The greater part
II this county will, at no distant day.
be devoted to fruit culture, and each
house started will grow into stable
concern for all time to come.
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